A video still shows a hiker, 24, falling from a rescue helicopter near Beit She’an, Israel, Wednesday. The hiker, who wandered into a minefield and lost his leg, fell to his death. (Israel’s Channel 10 News via Reuters)

An opposition activist held a flare in Moscow Thursday. Hundreds of people marched against the Kremlin, shouting “We need a different Russia” and “Russia without Putin.” (Alexey Sazonov/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Police officers arrested a protester at an antigovernment rally in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday. Club-swinging police blocked protesters. Meanwhile, the U.S. stepped up efforts to mediate the crisis, which threatens to undermine its goal of getting nuclear-armed Pakistan to help fight militants. (Shakil Adil/Associated Press)

People looked at flowers left for soldiers Mark Quinsey and Cengiz Azimkar — killed by Real IRA, a splinter group — in Antrim, Ireland, Thursday. Republicans in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing administration have reassured their Protestant partners by denouncing the guerrillas. (Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

A police officer talked to kids before the opening of a La Uribe, Colombia, police station Thursday. The area was once a FARC rebel sanctuary. President Alvaro Uribe’s troops are working to drive the guerillas into remote jungles. (Eliana Aponte/Reuters)

A displaced Sudanese girl stood near water at a refugee camp in Al Fasher, Darfur, Sudan, Thursday. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

A boy swung on cloth tied to the underside of a truck in Mumbai Thursday. (Arko Datta/Reuters)

With .50-caliber rifle in the foreground, Violence Policy Center analyst Tom Diaz, right, testified before the House National Security and Foreign Affairs subcommittee in Washington Thursday. He told the panel the U.S. can control Mexico drug violence by enforcing already existing laws that lapsed under President George W. Bush. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press)

Lindsey Vonn, of the U.S., celebrated after winning the season’s last women’s super-G race at the Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals Thursday in Are, Sweden. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)

Employees hit Clairoix Continental factory Director Louis Forzy with eggs as he delivered a speech in Clairoix, France, Thursday, the day after the car-parts company announced it would cut nearly 2,000 jobs. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

A woman was reflected in a puddle as she walked past the golden-domed Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, Thursday. (Petar Petrov/Associated Press)

Villagers mined for gold in the Bombana district of Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, Thursday. About 60,000 people have set up temporary settlements to pan for gold in the area; however, a government source said it will be closed down due to environmental concerns. (Yusuf Ahmad/Reuters)

Stefan Petzner, a member of Austria’s Buendnis Zukunft Oesterreich political party, gestured during a parliament session in Vienna Thursday. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)

Tourists looked at North Korea through telescopes at an observation post near Panmunjom, a village on the border between the two Koreas, Thursday. North Korea plans to fire a new rocket into space in early April. (Lee Jin-man/Associated Press)

People mourned Thursday at a school where 17-year-old former student Tim Kretschmer fatally shot 16 people in Winnenden, Germany, Wednesday. Police shot and killed him. Authorities released a chat-room transcript in which the teen said, “I’ve had it. I’m sick of this life it’s always the same old stuff. Everyone laughs at me, nobody recognizes my potential.” (Johannes Eisele/Reuters)

Japan’s Hozumi Hasegawa, left, retained his World Boxing Council bantamweight title with a first-round technical knockout of South Africa’s Vusi Malinga in Kobe, Japan, Thursday. (Kyodo/Reuters)

A soldier dressed as an usher yawned as he guarded an entrance to Beijing’s Great Hall of the People during the closing ceremony of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Thursday. (Andy Wong/Associated Press)